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Bibliography: Dashner, James. (2010). The Scorch Trials.  New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0385738750 Plot Summary:  Thomas and the Gladers solved the maze and escaped the Grievers, but it turns out there is more in store for them.  Sun flares have destroyed the Earth and a deadly virus called the Flare is rampaging through the [...]

Bibliography: Ness, Patrick. (2010). Monsters of Men. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 978-0763647513 Plot Summary: Todd and Viola are still separated by warring factions, each determined to claim victory before new settlers arrived.  But neither group counted on the Spackle, native sentient species, exacting revenge ofor the murder and genocide inflicted upon them by the [...]

Bibliography: Gill, David Macinnis. (August 2010). Black Hole Sun. New York: Greenwillow Books. ISBN: 978-0061673047 Plot Summary:  Durango is the chief of a small band of mercenaries who live by their own code of behavior on dystopian Mars.  Joining Durango to defend a community of miners from the cannabalistic Draeu are second in command Vienne, [...]

Bibliography:  Anthony, Joelle.  (2010).  Restoring Harmony.  New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.  ISBN: 9780399252815 Plot Summary: In the not so distant future, when the collapse of oil has caused governments to fail and black markets to emerge,  16 year old fiddler Molly travels to Oregon to get her grandparents and return with them to Canada.  [...]

Bibliography:  Bacigalupi, Paola.  (2010).  Ship Breaker.  New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780316056212. Plot Summary:  When teenage Nailer and his friend Pima find a luxury clipper ship stranded after a devastating hurricane, they figure this is their “lucky strike.”  They can sell the precious metal and other salvage  and never have to [...]

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